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Dine vs Rine - What's the difference?

dine | rine |

As verbs the difference between dine and rine

is that dine is to eat; to eat dinner or supper while rine is to touch.

As a noun rine is

a watercourse or ditch.

dine

English

Verb

(din)
  • to eat; to eat dinner or supper
  • (obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
  • A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. — Sir Walter Scott.
  • (obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
  • What wol ye dine ? — Chaucer.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    rine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rinen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rin)
  • To touch.
  • To concern; affect.
  • To pertain to; fall to.
  • To tend to a certain effect or outcome.
  • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rune, from (etyl) . See (l).

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A watercourse or ditch.
  • Etymology 3

    Variation of (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)